We now bring you the latest and greatest from the Mac Team! The team has fixed bugs, improved Cocoa integration, introduced an annoying beeping sound whenever you press keyboard shortcuts (known issue!), and last but certainly most exciting: brought <video> to the Mac!

To ensure that we actually get some testing of this, we have included a fun filled 10 minute movie. Enjoy! (It is not cats on skateboards but we are doing the best we can.)

Known Issues

Beeping sound for many keyboard shortcuts

Java applets may show up in unexpected places

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Beta 2 contains many significant improvements over the first beta, and we would like to thank everyone who helped us test Opera for your great work! Your invaluable feedback really does make a difference, and it helps us turn Opera into an even better browser.

You might have noticed that the 10.50 snapshots contain a lot more changes and fixes than usual. This is the result of our increased focus and has sped up the development process significantly.
Thanks to the hard work of the Opera engineers Opera 10.50 for Windows has now reached RC status.
We hope you like the new speed of development because we plan to work as hard to finalize 10.50 for Unix and Mac.

Video seeking
This build build mainly includes stabilization fixes, but also a new feature in (html5) video: It's now possible to seek through videos that are not completely downloaded yet. If you skip forward in a video, Opera will adjust the download process so you don't have to download the part that you are not going see.

The first release candidate is not even a day old, but we already got a lot of feedback (thanks! :-) ). The new RC addresses several stability issues, rendering problems and includes update Opera Unite translations.

Windows 10.50 is released and we are still the fastest browser available! If you haven't downloaded it yet, what is taking you so long? Head over to www.opera.com/download, to get your hands on it now.

We have gone from Pre-Alpha to Final in just over two months (with a Christmas holiday in between I might add). Never has the development of the desktop browser been so fast. Our developers are rivalling Carakan for speed! But the thanks doesn't just go to them, we simply couldn't have done it without your testing and feedback. So give yourselves a big pat on the back for all that we have achieved together.

In the last couple of blog posts, several of you commented that our developers deserve some time off and whilst that is true, I know the Mac and UNIX teams are still hungry to get their own versions of 10.50 out. So there will be no slacking off, just yet. Development continues apace!

Whilst you Mac and UNIX users await your respective finals, we thought we'd give you another snapshot. Like the Windows final, these builds have the latest rendering improvements but are understandably still rougher around the edges, as they have not yet been fully optimised and integrated into their environments (though Mac is getting close).

Highlights

The latest Presto and Carakan (rendering engine) improvements

Known Issues

Mac

No support for PowerPC (PPC)

Minimal Java Support

Possible performance issues on low end machines

UNIX

Font problems

Language input issues

Compiz issues

No .deb or .rpm packages

Some Command line option don't work

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

This Opera 10.51 build brings a few important fixes to the e-mail client. We have also been working on stability, and some tweaking of performance related to JavaScript timers, which should lead to smoother animations in some cases. Some bugs related to customization have been addressed as well, along with fixes to Opera Link and bookmarks handling.

It's difficult to summarize and highlight specific fixes, as most of them could be important to different groups of people. Just take a look at the changelog, and let us know if you spot any regressions.

Unix users can check out a better looking Opera in a separate snapshot and Mac users should look for further updates in a few days or so.

Following on from the 10.51 snapshot for Windows. Here is a nice little suprise for our UNIX users. It includes all the Core and Carakan fixes of the 10.51 Windows snapshot, plus a little something just for UNIX: our latest improvements to GTK integration.

Whilst UNIX remains in alpha status for now, we are trying our very hardest to get you something more stable ASAP. So keep an eye out for more big improvements soon.

Highlights

It looks nicer!

Known Issues

Carakan crashes on some sites (such as yahoo.com).

Font problems

Language input issues

No .deb or .rpm packages

No KDE integration (yet)

Problem with address field drop down position under non compositing Window Managers

Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users

Black border around Ctrl+Tab dialog when running under a compositing Window Manager

Some command line options don't work

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

Hi! I can introduce myself as a passionate Mac user for more than twenty years (!) and I recently joined the Mac team after helping out with 10.50 Final on Windows. As you understand it is all hands on deck now for the upcoming 10.5 Final for Mac.

Mac Highlights

Many Mac specific UI improvements

Several window painting glitches fixed

Copying of images to the clipboard is back

Hope you like it!

Known Issues

Still some dialog painting glitches

Two tabs are opened if opening new tab when there are no open windows

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest and greatest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

This is the first 10.51 Release Candidate for Windows. The changes since the previous build are mostly stability fixes, and there's some work on improving Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark. We have also fixed a minor issue related to performance.

Before we all go off to celebrate Easter Holidays, we thoughts we'd give you a few final fixes to show what we have been working on. As you can see from the changelog there are quite a lot improvements. Most of these issues are cross platform fixes, however both Mac and UNIX get a number of Widget fixes. Additionally we fixed a couple of the more annoying issues on UNIX.

Please try to keep your comments on topic (i.e. about the new changes and fixes we have made, or newly discovered bugs) as it helps to gather useful feedback. For general discussions of previously reported bugs please use the forums.

Thanks for the bug hunting over the holiday period!

Known Issues

Mac

Some stability problems on PPC

Fonts may be cut off when scrolling

Crash when using Opera Standard Skin (the default Mac Native is OK)

Crashlogger doesn’t work for OS 10.4 ‘Tiger’

UNIX

No KDE integration

Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users

Some command line options don't work

Fonts occasionally broken (narrow and multi-colored)

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.